Treva Charlene
Grimm, daughter of Charles Perry and Oral Markwell Andes, was born
April 6, 1916 near North English, Iowa. She died at age 94 on May
25, 2010 at the English Valley Care Center, where she had been a
resident since October 2008. Graveside services will be held on
Saturday, June 26, at 10:30 a. m. at the North English Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the Children’s Program at the North English
Library.
She graduated from Webster Consolidated High School in 1934. She
married Lloyd Byron Grimm on October 22, 1934 at Unionville,
Missouri. Together they farmed in the North English-Millersburg
area until moving to North English in 1971. Treva was a homemaker
and did cashier work at various retail establishments in Iowa County
until the mid-1990s. She was an accomplished seamstress and was
especially skilled in creating beautiful clothing, quilts and wall
hangings.
Treva was preceded in death by her husband (November 25, 1998); her
parents; one son, Larry Lee Grimm (December 18, 2002); sisters,
Leona Andes Johnson and Dorothy Andes Goodman. She is survived by
two sons, Jimmie Lloyd (Barbara) Grimm, Bloomington, Illinois and
Charles Richard “Dick” Grimm, Edmonds, Washington; four grandsons,
David Grimm and Daniel Grimm, Augusta, Kansas, Michael Grimm,
Seattle, Washington, and Andrew Grimm, Bloomington, Illinois; one
granddaughter, Sarah Grimm (Jeffrey) Lopper, Cincinnati, Ohio.